A young writer, nearing a mental breakdown caused by his family and boss, moves into an apartment occupied by a walking, talking, foul-mouthed ape in a Hawaiian shirt and Converse High Tops.
Acting
Franco vs. himself in the most unhinged therapy session ever filmed.
Practical Effects
The ape suit commitment is genuinely unhinged cinema.
Director
James Franco
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Franco adapted this from a play by Robert Boswell while still at NYU—explains the theatrical single-location energy.
This predates The Disaster Artist by over a decade yet contains the same ego-deconstruction DNA—Franco's been playing 'delusional artist' as genre.
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